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BY  -  LAWS 


OF    THE 


Salt  River  Valley  Water  Users' 
Association 


1904 


President,  B.  A.  FOWLER 

Vice-President,  E.  W.  WILBUR                            | 

Treasurer,  E.J 

BENNITT    Secretary 

,  FRANK  H.  PARKER 

Leg 

AL  Adviser,  Joseph  H. 

KIBBEY 
ors 

Board    of  Govern 

Chairman,  B.  A.  F0WI.ER                                          1 

Henry  JENNINGS        H.  G.  VanFossen 

E.  W.  Wilbur 

John  P.  Orme 

Harry  Kay 

A.J.  Chandler 

H.J.  Hanson 

W.  A.  Wilson 

George  D.  Chri 

STY    C.  A.  Saylor 

^cil 

Members    of    Cotii 

Chairman,  C.  T.  Hirst          -  Clerk,  L.  J.  Rice                         | 

N.  B.  Cole 

P.  T.  Hurley 

W.  S.  Dorman 

G.  W.  Walters 

Wm.  Wallace 

Alma  Millett 

H.  M.  Welborn 

C.  T.  Hirst 

G.  A.  Dobson 

W.  H.  Brown 

J.  W.  Eastwood 

J.  A.  Stewart 

W.  H.  Wilky 

L  J.  Rice 

Wallace  A.  Macdonald 

Henry  Hilbers 

E.  A.  Spaulding 

Daniel  P.  Jones 

George  R.  Kay 

George  Blount 

C.  S.  Stewart 

W.  H.  Mann 

J.  W'^.Hagerlund 

A.  Wingar 

George  Wilky 

Jerome  B.  Clark 

J.  G.  Peterson 

Wm   Rice 

W.H.Kay 

-I  ^     I  ^(  u 


INDEX 


']       ii       Ij  Section.    Page. 

Acceptance  of  ofRce 2  33 

Assessments 

How  payable 1  "j 

Amonut   of — How   determined 2  7 

Notice  of — By  mail ,            g  9 

Notice  of — By  publication 3  7 

May  be  reduced 4  g 

When  levied 5  g 

When   payable g  10 

To  whom  payable 12  10 

When   Delinquent g  10 

Duplicate  list 6  9 

Association,  may  deed  land , 26  16 

Ballots,  to  be  supplied  how 10  Ig 

Names  and  candidates  on 11  ig 

Blank  for  other  candidates     11  ig 

Board  of  Governors  to  supply 12  Ig 

Form  of 12  ig 

Shall  deliver  to  inspector 13  20 

To  be  given  voter 15  20 

Not  to  be  rejected,  when 20  23 

Rejected 21  23 

Refusal  of  ballot 22  24 

Folded  ballots 26  24 

After  being  counted  to  be  sealed 29  24 

Board  of  Governors: 

To  solicit  for  stock  subschiption 1  1 

To  issue  preliminary  stock  certificate 2  1 

Books  and  papers  of  Council 

Clerk  to  be  custodian 6  3 

Must  deposit  with  Secretary 6  3 

By-laws  to  be  certified  and  transmitted 4  1 

To  have  three  readings 13  3 

Shall  have  yea  and  nay  vote 13  3 

Caption  of  By-laws  to  be 20  5 

Certificates  of  election 39  26 

Of  Purchase...      17  13 

Of  redemption 22  14 

Of  stock — Preliminary 2-1  12 

Form  of — adopted  by  Governors 3  2 

Payment  of  10c  per  share 2 


II 


Bights  of  holders  of 

Clerk  of  the  Council 

Duties  of 

To  certify  by-laws 

To    transmit    by-laws 

Term  of  office 

Clerks  of  election 

Ballot  clerk 

Poll  clerk ^. . . 

Council: 

To  meet 

Elect  officers       

Bules  of  procedure 

Sessions  to  be  open  and  public 

Contesting"  election  of  members 

Procedure 

Chairman  of  council,  when  elected 

Term  of  office 

Duties  of        

Compensation — See  salaries 

Candidates — Names  on  ballots 

Counting  sheets 

Not  to  reject  as  irregular 

Counting  sheets  to  be  signed  by  board 

Canvassing  the  votes 

To  be  public 

Folded  ballots 

Excesa  removed 

Canvassing  the  returns  _ 

Governors  constitute  Board 

"V^Tien  to  meet   

May  adjourn  to  wait  returns 

To  be  made  public 

Besult  to  be  declared 

To  be  entered  by  secretary 

Council  shall  ratify  contract  before  submitting  it  to  shareholders 
Delinquent  list 

Notice 

Delinquent  sale  notice  of 

Time  of 

Dissent — See  protest 

Elections,,  regular,  to  be  held  when 

Election  Board  how  appointed 

Electors  may  appoint  when 

Elections — Special — See   special   elections 
Governors: 

To  solicit  stock  subscriptions 


2 

1 

1 

3 

1-3 

4-3 

1 

4 

1 

3 

2 

7 

17 

15 

20 

15 

£0 

1 

3 

1 

3 

5 

1 

11 

3 

14 

4 

15-18 

4-5 

1 

2 

3 

2 

4 

3 

11 

18 

18 

22 

19 

23 

30 

25 

24 

24 

24 

24 

25 

24 

25 

24 

35 

25 

35 

25 

35 

25 

36 

25 

36 

25 

37 

26 

43 

27 

13 

11 

14 

11 

15 

12 

16 

12 

1 

16 

7 

17 

8 

17 

Ill 


To  prescribe  form  of  certificate 

To   employ  legal  adviser , 

To  declare  result  of  election 

Shall  approve  contract  before  submitting  to  shareholders. 

Shall  transmit   to  council , 

To  order  special  election 

Inspectors   of  election , 

Electors  may  appoint  when 1    

Ballots  to  be  delivered  to 

Irregularities,  not  to  prejudice 

Judges   of   election 

Electors    may  appoint    when 

Licgal  adviser  to  be  employed  by  Governors 

Members  of  council,  may  be  expelled 

Cause   to  be  entered 

Yeas  and  nays  necessary 

Minutes  of  council 

Notice  of  regular  election 

Of  special  election.. 

Officers  of  the  Council 

Officers,  how  voted  for,  when  name  not  on  ballot 

Paliamentary  rules 

Petition  for  candidates  names 

Protest,  members  may  enter 

Publication  of  notices: 

Regular  election 

Special  election , 

Polling  places.  Governors  to  provide , 

Poll  list,  form  of 

Not  to  be  rejected  because  irregular 

Polls,  when  to  be  opened 

Polls,  when  to  be  closed 

Quorum   of   Council 

Qualification  of  officers 

Redemption  of  land  sold: 

May  be  made  when 

How  made 

Redemption  fund 

Ilegister  of  election 

Made  5  days  before  election 

Register,  what  to  contain 

Form  of 

Shareholders  must  be   registered 

Copies  of  register 

To  be  posted 

Special  election  authorized i.   ..   .. 

How  called 


3 

3-2 

1 

34 

38 

26 

41 

26 

41 

26 

44 

27 

7 

17 

8 

17 

13 

20 

19 

23 

7 

17 

8 

17 

1 

2-34 

9 

3 

9 

3 

10 

3 

3 

1 

2 

16 

45 

27 

2 

2 

11 

18 

5 

1 

11 

18 

10 

3 

2 

16 

45 

27 

14 

20 

17 

22 

19 

23 

23 

24 

23 

24 

12 

3 

2 

33 

21 

14 

22 

14 

25 

15 

3 

16 

3 

16 

3 

16 

3 

16 

5 

17 

6 

17 

9 

18 

1 

16 

45 

27 

IV 

How  conducted i 46-47-49-50-51  28 

Shareholder,  may  vote  in  more  than  one  district 4  17 

Cannot  vote  unless  registered 5  17 

Stock,    preliminary,    rights   of   holders.. 2  2 

Salaries  of  officers,  President ..  l  5 

Treasurer 2  5 

Secretary 3  5-33 

Legal  adviser 1  2-34 

Board  of  governors 4  6 

Special  services 5  6 

Secretary — to  give  bond 3  5 

To    publish   notice    of   election 2  16 

To  prepare  election  regrister 3  16 

To  have  register  printed 6  17 

To  receive  election  returns 33-34  25 

To  draw  warants 4  G 

To   prepare  duplicate  asessment  list 6  9 

To  charge  treasurer  with  amount  of  list 7  9 

To  issue  certificate  of  election 39  26 

To  issue  call  for  special  election 45  27 

To  have  copy  of  proposed  undertaking  printed 44  27 

Terms  of  office 1-2  o3 

Treasurer,  to  give  bond 2  b 

To  receive  money 2  2 

> 12  10 

13  17 

To  issue  certifiicates 17  13 

22  14 

To  record  certificates 19  14 

Voting,  maner  of |. 15-16  20-21 

Votes,  how  counted 20-30  23-24 

Yeas  and  nays  necessary 

to  expel  a  member 10  3 

on  pasage  of  by-laws 13  3 


By-Laws  of  the  Salt  River  Valley  Water 
Users'  Association 


1903-1904 


DUTIES    OF   OFFICERS,   AUTHORITY   OF    BOARD   OF   GOVERNORS   TO 
ISSUE   CERTIFICATES   OF    STOCK    AND    TO 
EMPLOY    REGULAR  LEGAL   ADVISER. 

Adopted  February  14th,  1903. 

ARTICLE  I. 

Section  1.  The  officers  of  this  Council  shall  consist  of  a  chairman 
and  a  clerk  and  of  such  other  officers  as  its  convenience  may  require. 

Section  2.  The  chairman  shall  be  the  presiding  officer  of  the 
Council,  and  exercise  and  perform  the  usual  powers  and  duties  usually 
incident  to  that  office  in  deliberative  bodies. 

Section  3.  The  clerk  shall  keep  accurate  minutes  of  the  proceed- 
ings of  the  Council  and  shall  perform  such  other  duties  as  may  from 
time  to  time  be  imposed  upon  him  by  the  Council. 

Section  4.  All  by-laws  shall  immediately  after  their  adoption 
be  accurately  engrossed,  certified  to  as  accurate  by  the  chairman  and 
clerk,  and  forthwith  transmitted  to  the  secretary  of  the  Association. 

Section  5.  The  rules  of  parliamentary  procedure  compiled  by 
Cushing,  as  far  as  applicable  and  whenever  not  otherwise  provided,  are 
adopted  as  the  rules  of  the  Council. 

ARTICLE  II. 

Section  1.  The  Board  odP  Governors  shall  proceed  at  once  to  pro- 
cure subscriptions  to  the  capital  stock  of  this  Association  in  such  man- 
ner as  it  shall  determine  to  be  the  most  effective  and  economical. 

Section  2.  The  Board  of  Governors  are  hereby  authorized  and  di- 
rected to  issue  to  subscribers  for  the  capital  stock  of  this  Association 


upon  the  pajTnent  to  tlie  treasurer  the  sum  of  ten  cents  per  share  sub- 
scribed for,  a  certificate  reciting  the  fact  of  such  subscription,  the  pay- 
ment of  said  ten  cents  per  share  thereon,  and  that  the  holder  of  the  certi- 
ficate and  his  assignee  is  and  are  entitled  to  all  the  rights  of  a  share- 
holder of  this  Association,  subject  to  all  their  liabilities  and  governed 
by  all  the  provisions  of  the  Articles  of  Incorporation  as  to  appurten- 
ancy,  transfer  and  forfeiture. 

Such  certificate  shall  be  signed  by  the  president  and  secretary  as 
prescribed  by  the  Articles  of  Incorporation  and  a  proper  record  kept 
thereof.  The  legal  holder  of  said  certificate,  subject  to  all  the  provi- 
sions of  the  Articles  of  Incorporation  and  the  By-Laws,  shall  be  enti- 
tled to  have  issued  to  him  in  lieu  thereof  when  it  can  be  issued  a  certifi- 
cate or  other  evidence  of  the  ownership  of  stock. 

Section  3.  The  form  of  such  certificate  shall  be  adopted  by  the 
Board  of  Governors. 

ARTICLE  in. 

Section  1.  The  Board  of  Governors  is  hereby  authorized  to  ap- 
point and  employ  a  regular  legal  adviser  for  this  Association  and  fix 
his  compensation;  provided  that  such  compensation  shall  not  exceed 
the  sum  of  two  thousand  dollars  for  the  term  ending  April  1st,  1904. 

ARTICLE  IV. 

GOVERNMENT  OF  THE  COUNCIL  AND     RIGHTS     OF      ITS     MEMBERS. 
Adopted  March  30th,  1903. 

Section  1.  On  the  1st  Monday  in  "May  in  each  year,  at  10  o'clock 
a.  m.  the  members  of  the  Council  shall  meet  at  Phoenix,  Arizona,  at  a 
place  to  be  provided  for  that  purpose.  If  a  quorum  then  appear  they 
shall  be  called  to  order  by  the  President  of  the  Association.  Tlie  Sec- 
retary of  the  Association  shall  act  as  clerk  pro  tern;  The  Council 
shall  then  proceed  to  elect  its  officers. 

Section  2.  The  officers  of  the  Council  shall  be  a  chairman,  a 
clerk  and  a  sergeant  at  arms,  and  such  other  officers  as  it  may  deem 
from  time  to  time  necessary  for  the  convenient  transaction  of  its  busi- 
ness. 

Section  3.  The  chairman  and  clerk  shall  hold  their  respective 
offices  until  the  next  ensuing  annual  meeting  of  the  Council. 

Section  4.  The  chairman  shall  preside  over  the  deliberations  of 
the  Council,  preserve  order  and  enforce  the  rules  of  the  Council.  He 
shall  as  soon  as  they  shall  have  been  adopted,  authenticate  all  by-laws 
with  his  signature.  . 


Section  5.  The  clerk  sliall  keep  a  roll  of  the  members,  and  call 
the  same  at  the  opening  of  each  daily  or  other  session  and  shall  note 
in  his  journal  those  who  were  present  and  those  who  were  absent  at 
each  roll  call. 

Section  6.     The  clerk  shall  keep  a  journal  wherein  he  shall  enter  a 

minute  of  all  the  proceedings  of  the  Council,  and  read  the  same  to  the 

Council  at  the  opening  of  each  daily  session.      The  clerk  shall  be   the 

custodian  of  all  the  books  and  papers  of  the  Council  during  its  sessions 

except  as  otherwise  directed  by  the  Council. 

Upon  the  adjournment  of  any  session  of  the  Council  for  a  period  of 
more  than  3  days,  the  clerk  shall  deposit  all  the  books  and  papers  per- 
taining to  the  Council  with  the  Secretary  of  the  Association. 

Section  7.  The  clerk  shall  attest  the  authentication  of  the  adop- 
tion of  all  by-laws  and  after  their  authentication  by  the  chairman  see 
that  they  are  forthwith  ti*ansmitted  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Associa- 
tion. 

Section  8.  The  sergeant  at  arms  shall  attend  all  sessions  of  the 
Council,  see  that  the  place  of  meeting  is  kept  ready  and  convenient  for 
the  use  of  the  Council  and  enforce  the  orders  of  the  Council  and  of  the 
chairman.. 

Section  9.  The  Council  may  for  sufficient  cause  and  by  a  two- 
thirds  vote  of  all  the  members  elected,  expel  a  member.  The  cause  for 
expulsions  shall  be  stated  in  writing  and  entered  in  full  on  the  jonmaJ. 

Section  10.  The  yeas  and  nays  of  the  members  of  the  Council  on 
any  question  shall  be  entered  on  the  journal  at  the  request  of  any  mem- 
ber. 

Any  member  may  dissent  from  and  protest  against  any  act,  pro- 
ceeding or  resolution  proposed,  and  have  the  reason  of  his  dissent  or 
protest  briefly  but  substantially  entered  upon  the  journal. 

Section  11.     The  doors  of  the  Council  room  shall  be  open  to  the 

public  unless  the  room  be  ordered  cleared  because  of  disorder  or  the 

numbers  in  attendance  discommode  the  council  in  the  transaction  of 

its  business. 

♦ 

Section  12.  A  majority  of  all  the  members  elected  shall  consti- 
tute a  quorum  for  the  transaction  of  business;  but  a  less  number  may 
adjourn  from  time  to  time  to  await  a  quorum. 

Section  13.  Every  proposed  by-law  shall  have  at  least  three  separ- 
ate and  distinct  readings  in  open  session  of  the    Council    before  the 


adoption  thereof.    On  the  final  question  of  the  adoption  of  a  by-law  the 
vote  shall  be  by  ayes  and  nays  and  entered  upon  the  journal. 

Section  14.  The  right  of  any  person  claiming  to  be  elected  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Council  may  be  contested  by  any  other  claimant  to  that  offi- 
ce or  by  any  elector  of  the  district  claimed  to  be  represented  by  such 
person. 

Section  15.  The  person  contesting  such  election  shall  on  or  before 
the  first  day  of  the  regular  session  of  the  council  next  held  after  the 
contested  election,  present  to  the  Council  a  written  statement  verified 
by  himself,  setting  forth  specifically  the  grounds  of  the  contest  and 
shall  before  or  at  the  same  time  deliver  an  exact  duplicate  thereof  to 
the  person  whose  election  is  contested. 

Section  16.  The  Council  shall  immediately  upon  the  presentation 
of  the  grounds  of  the  contest  consider  the  same,  and  if  it  shall  deter- 
mine that  the  statement  contains  valid  grounds  of  contest,  the  Council 
shall  forthwith  fix  a  da}^  not  less  than  one  or  more  than  three  days 
thereafter  for  the  hearing  thereof,  and  shall  cause  notice  thereof  in 
writing  to  be  given  to  the  contestant  and  the  contestee.  The  hearing 
shall  be  had  before  a  committee  of  not  less  than  five  members  of  the 
Council  appointed  for  that  purpose,  who  for  the  information  of  the 
Council  shall  report  its  findings  to  the  Council. 

Section  1 7.  The  grounds  for  contesting  an  election  of  a  member 
of  the  Council  are  either  of  the  following:  1.  That  he  does  not  possess 
the  qualifications  of  a  member  of  the  Council  as  prescribed  by  the  Ar- 
ticles of  Incorporation  of  the  Association. 

2.  That  he  did  not  receive  a  plurality  of  the  valid  votes  for 
that  office  at  the  election  therefor. 

3.  That  a  sufficient  number  of  votes  were  procured  to  be  cast  at 
such  election  by  the  person  whose  office  is  contested,  by  fraudulent  or 
corrupt  means,  which  if  not  coimted  would  leave  less  than  a  plurality 
to  be  counted  for  him.  I 

4.  That  the  person  whose  election  is  contested,  procured  by 
fraudulent  or  corrupt  means,  the  absence  of  such  a  number  of  voters, 
who,  if  they  had  voted  would  have  voted  for  another  candidate,  would 
have  given  the  other  candidate  a  plurality. 

5.  That  illegal  votes  were  received  and  counted  for  the  contestee 
in  number  sufficient  if  rejected  to  change  the  result. 


6.  That  there  was  such,  a  substantial  departure  from  the  by-laws 
in  the  manner  of  conducting  the  election  as  to  make  it  doubtful 
whether  a  fair  expression  of  the  electors  has  been  obtained. 

Section  18.  Upon  the  conclusion  of  the  hearing  of  the  contest  the 
Council  shall  enter  the  finding  upon  the  journal  that  the  contestee  was 
or  was  not  duly  elected.  If  it  shall  find  that  he  was  not 
duly  elected,  such  person  shall  not  sit  as  a  member.  If  the 
contestant  also  claim  the  office  and  it  shall  appear  that  he  was  duly 
elected  the  Council  shall  so  declare  and  the  contestant  shall  thereupon 
be  admitted  to  office.  If  the  contestant  do  not  claim  the  office,  and 
the  Council  shall  declare  the  contestee  not  elected  thereto,  there  shall 
thereupon  be  a  vacancy  to  be  filled  as  prescribed  by  the  Articles  of  In- 
corporation. 

Section  20.  The  caption  to  proposed  by-laws  shall  be,  'T^y-law 
adopted  by  the  Council  of  the  Salt  Eiver  Valley  Water  Users'  Asso- 
ciation the day  of 19 ,  concerning  (or  relating  to) 

(then  state  generally  but  briefly  the  subject  of  the  by-law.)" 

When  adopted  the  by-law  shall  have  appended  to  it  the  statement, 
'^adopted day  of -,  19 . 


'^Chairman  Council.'' 


ARTICLE  VIII. 

SALARIES    AND    OFFICIAL    BONDS. 

Adopted  April  4th,  1903. 

Section  1.  The  president  of  this  Association  shall  receive  an  an- 
nual salary  of  two  thousand  dollars  to  be  paid  in  equal  quarter  yearly 
installments  on  the  first  days  of  August,  November,  Februar}^  and  May. 

Section  2.  The  treasurer  of  this  dissociation  shall  receive  an  an- 
nual salary  of  fifty  dollars,  to  bo  pi  id  in  equal  quarterly  installments  on 
the  first  days  of  August,  November,  February  and  May,  and  shall  be- 
fore entering  upon  the  duties  of  his  office,  execute  to  the  Association, 
a  J)ond  in  the  sum  of  Ten  Thousand  Dollars  ($10,000)  conditioner!  that 
he  will  faithfully  perform  the  duties  of  his  office  which  bond  shall  be 
approved  by  the  Board  of  Governcrs,  and  filed  with  the  president  of  the 
Association,  said  bond  to  be  a  surety  company's  bond,  and  paid  for  by 
the  Association. 

Section  3.  The  secretary  of  this  Association  shall  receive  an  annual 
salary  of  one  thousand  dollars,  to  be  paid  in  equal  quarter  yearly  in- 
stallments on  the  first  days  of  August,  !N"ovember,   February  and  May, 


and  before  entering  upon  the  duties  of  his  office  he  shall  execute  to  the 
Association  a  bond  in  the  sum  of  five  thousand  dollars  conditioned  that 
he  will  faithfully  perform  the  duties  of  his  office,  which  bond  shall  be 
be  approved  by  the  Board  of  Governors  and  filed  with  the  president  of 
the  Association,  said  bond  to  be  a  surety  company's  bond,  and  paid 
for  by  the  Association. 

Section  4.  Each  member  of  the  Board  of  Governors  other  than 
the  president,  secretary  or  other  member  who  draws  a  salary,  shall  re- 
ceive the  sum  of  two  dollars  for  each  day  by  him  in  actual  attendance 
upon  the  meetings  of  the  Board  of  Governors,  and  engaged  in  tlie 
business  of  the  Association,  and  in  addition  thereto  the  sum  of  five  (5) 
cents  for  each  mile  counting  one  way  only,  necessarily  and  actually  trav- 
eled in  such  attendance.  Such  compensation  shall  be  paid  quarter 
yeariy  on  the  first  days  of  August,  N"ovember,  February  and  May.  Eadi 
member  shall  on  or  before  each  quarter  day  make  out  a  verified  statement 
of  the  actual  number  of  days  of  attendance  by  him  during  the  next  preced- 
ing quarter,  upon  the  meeting  of  the  Board,  and  number  of  miles  nec- 
essarily and  actually  traveled  by  him  in  such  attendance,  and  present 
such  statement  to  the  president.  If  the  president  shall  find  the  same 
correct,  he  shall  endorse  it  with  his  approval,  stating  the  amount  for 
which  he  approves  it,  and  the  secretary  shall  thereupon  draw  and  coun- 
tersign, and  the  president  shall  sign,  their  warrant  upon  the  treasurer 
for  the  amount  so  approved. 

Section  5.  If  the  Board  of  Governors  should  deem  it  necessary  or 
advantageous,  to  cause  one  or  more  of  its  members  to  visit  part  or 
parts  of  the  Eeservoir  District  for  the  purpose  of  investigating  and 
viewing  any  part  of  the  works  of  the  Association,  for  the  informat'on 
of  the  Board  in  the  transaction  of  its  business,  or  to  send  any  person  or 
persons  to  Washington.  T).  C,  for  the  benefit  of  this  Association,  the 
Board  shall  specifically  authorize  or  direct  the  same  and  may  allow 
compensation  therefor,  provided  such  compensation  shall  not  exceed 
two  dollars  ($?.00)  per  day  actually  engaged  therein,  and  for  reim- 
bursement for  actual  expenses  incurred  therein:  and  provided  furiiher 
that  no  salaried  officer  shall  receive  comx)ensation  for  such  service,  ex- 
cept his  actual  expenses. 

Section  6.  No  officer  of  this  Association  shall  receive  any  compen- 
sation directly  or  inclirectly  for  any  services  rendered  by  him  for  it,  ex- 
cept under  and  according  to  the  provisions  of  this  or  some  other  by-law 
of  this  Association.  ' 


ASSESSMENTS. 

Adopted  July  24tli,  1903. 

Section  1.  Assessments  for  the  ordinary  cost  of  operation,  main- 
tenance and  repair  of  the  works  of  the  Association  and  as  well  of  those 
the  maintenance  and  control  of  which  are  or  may  he  lodged  with  the 
Association  shall  he  payable  in  equal  semi  annual  installments,  one  on 
the  1st  Monday  in  March  and  the  other  on  the  1st  Monday  in  Sepetra- 
her  of  each  year. 

Section  2.  At  the  regular  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Governors  to  he 
held  on  the  1st  Monday  in  June  in  each  year  that  Board  shall  make 
an  estimate  of  the  probable  cost  of  maintenance,  operation,  repair  and 
control  for  the  next  ensuing  year.  In  making  such  estimates  the  Board 
may  make  reasonable  allowances  for  probable  delinquencies  and  by 
such  allowajnce  increase  the  amount  of  the  estimate  to  be  assessed  and 
collected:  and  shall  also  take  into  consideration  any  money  belonging 
to  the  Association  or  that  may  be  probably  paid  into  the  treasury  and 
be  available  for  use  for  that  purpose  during  the  ensuing  year,  and  by 
that  much  diminish  the  amount  of  money  to  be  collected  upon  such  as 
sessment. 

It  shall  be  the  purpose  of  the  Board  to  estimate  so  that  the 
amount  of  money  collected  for  that  purpose  in  each  year  shall  as  near- 
ly exactly  as  may  be  practicable,  eq^^al  the  necessary  expenditure  there- 
for during  that  year. 

Section  3.  Within  ten  days  after  the  first  day  of  said  June  meet- 
ing the  Board  shall  cause  to  be  published  in  some  newspaper  published 
within  the     Reservoir    District    a  statement  showing: 

1.  The  estimated  cost  of  labor  and  material. 

2.  The  estimated  cost  of  salaries  of  officers  and  wages  of  regular 
employes. 

3.  Other  costs,  anticipated  and  the  nature  and  purpose  for  which 
it  isi  to  be  incurred. 

4.  The  total  of  the  estimated  cost. 

5.  The  number  of  shares  against  the  owners  of  which  the  cost  is 
to  be  assessed  and 

6.  The  assessment  per  share. 

Such  statement  shall  be  signed  by  the  president  and  secretary  and 
shall  be  published  for  at  least,  15'  days  in  every  regular  issue  of  the 
newspaper  in  which  it  shall  be  directed  by  the  Board  to  be  published 
during  that  period. 


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Section  4.  On  the  1st  day  of  the  regular  meeting  in  July  and 
after  the  puhlicatiou  of  the  statement  as  prescrihed  in  Section  3  of  this 
by-law  the  Board  shall  take  up  the  consideration  of  the  assessment  of 
the  cost  of  maintenance,  operation  repair  and  control.  Any  one  or  more 
of  the  shareholders  may  appear  at  said  meeting  and  in  writing  object  to 
the  published  estimates.  The  written  objection  shall  be  noted  in  the 
minutes  of  the  proceedings  of  the  Board  and  filed  and  preserved  by  the 
secretary  amon.ar  the  records  of  his  office.  If  it  be  made  to  appear  to 
the  satisfaction  of  the  Board  that  the  estimates  or  any  of  them  are  too 
high  it  or  they  may  be  accordingly  reduced,  but  in  no  case  shall  they 
or  the  aggregate  of  them  be  raised. 

Section  5.  After  due  consideration  of  any  objections  that  may 
have  been  presented  the  Board  and  -within  15  days  after  the  1st  day 
of  the  regular  July  meeting  shall  make  an  order  to  be  entered  on  the 
minute  book  which  shall  be  in  substantially  the  following  form: 

The  Board  having  heretofore  on  the day  of , 

19 ,  estimated  the  probable,  ordinary  cost  of  maintenance,  operation, 

repair  and  control  of  the  works  of  the  Association  and  of  those  this 
Association  is  charged  with  the  maintenance  and  control  for  the  next 
ensuing  year  as  follows: 

1.  The  estimated  cost  of  labor  ancf  material   $ 

2.  The  estimated  cost  of  salaries  of  officers  and  wages  of  reg- 

ular employes .  ^ $ 

3.  Other  cost  anticipated  for $ 

4.  The  total  estimated  cost  for  the  year  ending  August  31st — $ 

5.  The  number  of  shares  against  the  owners  of  which  such  is  to 

be  assessed $ 

6.  The  assessment  per  share $ 

And  the  Board  having  caused  a  statement  of  such  estimate  to  be 

published  in  the — ,  a  newspaper  published     in  the 

Beservoir  Di-trict,  the  first  of  which  publications  was  on  the  

day  of .  19 .  and  the  last  on  the day  of 

19 and  in  every  regular  issue  thereof  between  those  dates. 

And  the  Board  having  met  on  the day  of  June, 

in  regular  session  for  the  consideration  of  the  proposed  assessment  and 
all  objections  thereto  having  been  duly  considered  and  no  change  hav- 
ing been  made  in  said  estimates  (if  that  be  the  fact;  and  if  there  has 
been  changes  then  say:  "And  the  estimate  for"  stating  it  'Tiaving 
been  reduced  to,"  etc.,  so  that  the  same  now  stands. 

""  1  etc. 

2  etc. 

3  etc.,  4  etc.,  5  etc.,  6  etc.,  etc.,  etc. 


It  is  now  therefore  ordered  that  there  be  and  there  is  hereby  levied 
against  the  owners  of  each  share  of  the  capital  stock  of  this  Association 
and  that  the  same  be  and  is  hereb}^  declared  a  lien  on  the 
land  to  which  the  same  are  appurtenant,  to  raise  revenue  for 
defraying  the  estimated  cost  of  the  maintenance,  operation  and 
repair  of  the  works  of  this  Association,  and  the  maintenance 
and  control  of  those  the  management  and  control  of  which 
is  lodged  in  this  Association  for  the  year  ending  the  31st  day  of  Au- 
gust, 19 ,  the  sum  of dollars    and    cents.       Whereof 

dollars  and cents  are  payable  on  the  1st  Monday  of 

September  and  dollai'S  and cents  on  the  1st  Monday  of 

March,  19 . 

Section  6.  Upon  the  entry  of  said  order  it  shall  be  the  duty  of 
the  secretarv^  forthwith  to  make  out  a  list  in  alphabetical  order  of  all 
the  owners  of  shares  of  the  capital  stock  of  this  Association  with  the 
Post  Office  address  of  each  and  showing  the  number  of  shares  owned 
by  each  and  the  lands  to  which  they  are  appurtenant.  The  list  shall 
be  known  as  the  assessment  list  for  the  year  ending  31st  day  of  August, 

1^ ?  and  shall  be  made  out  in  duplicate  and  shall  be  substantially 

the  following  form. 

ASSESSMENT    LIST. 

Year  ending  31st  day  of  August,  19 — . 


Name  of 
Shareholder 


No.  of 
Shares 


Land  to  Which 
Appurtenant 


Post  Office 
Address 


Section  7.  Upon  the  completion  of  said  duplicate  lists  they  shall 
be  signed  by  the  president,  countersigned  by  the  secretary  and  attested 
by  the  seal  of  the  Association  and  one  copy  thereof  shall  be  forthwith 
delivered  to  the  treasurer  of  the  Association.  I^pon  the  delivery  to 
the  treasurer  of  the  duplicate  list  he  shall  be  thereupon  charged  by 
the  secretary  in  a  book  to  be  kept  for  that  purpose  with  the  entire 
amount  thereof. 

Section  8.  Upon  the  receipt  of  the  duplicate  assessment  list  the 
treasurer  shall  forthwith  write  or  print,  and  mail  post  paid  to  each  of 
the  shareholders  mentioned  in  the  list  a  notice  which  shall  be  in  sub- 
stantially the  following  form: 

Phoenix,  Arizona, 

Salt  River  Valley  Water  Users'  Association: 

Treasurer's  Office. 
You  are  hereby  notified  that  the  duplicate  assessment  list  for  or- 


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dinary  expenses  for  the  ensuing  year  ending  31st  day  of  August,  19 — , 
has  been  placed  in  n\y  hands  for  collection. 

The  amount  assessed  against  you  is  $ ,  one  half  of  which 

is  now  due  and  payable,  the  balance  will  be  due  and  payable  on  the  1st 
Monday  in  March,  

If  1st  installment  is  not  paid  within  thirty  days  it  will  be  deemed 
delinquent  and  your  headgate  will  be  closed  until  such  payment  is  made, 
according  to  Section  11  of  Art.  5  of  our  By-laws. 


Treasurer  S.  R.  V.  W.  U.  Ass'n. 

Such  notices  shall  be  plainly  addressed  to  the  address  of  each  stock- 
holder as  noted  in  the  share  register.    . 

Section  9.  If  any  shareholder  shall  fail  to  pay  any  semi-annual 
installment  of  the  assessments  ordered,  made  and  levied  under  the  pro- 
visions of  this  by-law,  within  thirty  days  from  and  after  the  same  shall 
be  payable  by  the  order  therefor,  the  same  shall  be  deemed  delinquent. 

Section  10.  A  shareholder  may  pay  either  the  first  semi-annual  in- 
stallment, or  both  the  first  and  second  installments,  at  his  option,  at 
any  time  before  the  second  installment  of  the  annual  assessment  shall  be 
due. 

Section.  11  During  the  period  of  the  delinquency  in  the  payment 
of  any  assessment  under  the  provisions  of  this  by-law  no  water  shall  be 
served  to  or  for  the  use  of  the  delinquent  shareholder.  The  with- 
holding of  service  of  water  to  delinquent  shareholders  under  the  pro- 
vision of  this  section  shall  not,  however,  be  deemed  a  waiver  by 
the  Association  of  any  other  or  simultaneous  procedure  for  the 
enforcement  of  ^he  payment  of  delinquent  assessments  prescribed  by 
the  by-laws,  but  such  other  procedure  may  be  pursued  notwithstand- 
ing. 

Section  12.  Assessments  levied  under  the  provisions  of  this  by- 
law shall  be  payable  to  the  treasurer  of  the  Association  at  his  office  in 
Phoenix  during  ordinaiy  office  hours.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
treasurer  to  give  each  shareholder  paying  his  assessment  or  any  install- 
ment thereof  a  receipt  dated  of  the  date  upon  which  payment  was 
made  and  stating  by  whom  payment  was  made,  upon  what  number  of 
shares  paid  and  a  descritption  of  the  land  to  which  they  are 
appurtenant,  upotn  account  of  what  assessment  or  installment 
of  assessment  it  was  paid  and  the  amount  of  the  pay- 
ment.     The  treasurer  shall  not,  however,  receive  any  amount  less  than 


it 

that  due  at  the  time  of  the  payment  upon  installments  then  due  and 
payable  or^,  at  the  option  of  the  payee,  of  the  whole  assessment  for  the 
current  year. 

The  treasurer  shall  also  note  on  the  duplicate  assessment  list  the 
date  and  amount  of  payment  and  the  person  by  whom  paid. 

Section  13.  Within  ten  days  after  the  expiration  of  thirty  days 
after  the  day  fixed  for  the  payment  of  the  second  semi-annual  install- 
ment of  an  assessment  made  and  levied  under  the  provisions  of  this  by- 
law the  treasurer  shall  make  out  a  lisl  of  all  shareholders  who  are  de- 
linquent in  the  payment  of  either  or  both  of  the  semi-annual  install- 
ments of  said  assessments  and  the  amoimt  of  such  delinquency  which 
list  shall  be  known  as  the  delinquent  list  of  assessments  for  ordinary  ex- 
penses for  the  year  ending  31st  day  of  August,  1 9 — ,  and  shall  Ije  in 
form  as  nearly  like  that  of  the  origiral  duplicate  as  practicable  with 
proper  adaptations  thereto. 

Section  14.  Upon  the  completion  of  the  delinquent  list  mention- 
ed in  the  foregoing  section  of  this  by-law  the  treasurer  shall  forthwith 
make  out  and  address  and  mail,  postpaid,  a  written  or  printed  notice  to 
each  of  the  delinquent  shareholders  named  in  the  delinquent  list.  Said 
notice  shall  be  in  substantially  the  following  form: 

Salt  Eiver  Valley  Water  Users'  Association. 

Treasurer's  Office, 
Phoenix,  Arizona.  

You  are  hereby  notified  that  the  assessment  levied  by  this  Associ- 
ation for  ordinary  expenses  for  the  year  ending  31st  day  of     August, 

19 — ,  is  past  due  and  you  are  delinquent.      The  amount  due  is  $ 

In  due  course  proceedings  will  be  taken  to  enforce  payment  thereof  as 
provided  by  the  by-laws. 


Treasurer  S.  R.  V.  W.  U.  Ass'n. 

Section  15.  Not  less  than  thirty  days  and  not  more  than  45  days 
after  the  completion  of  the  delinquent  list  the  treasurer  shall  cause  to 
be  published  in  a  newspaper  published  and  of  general  circulation  within 
the  Reservoir  District  described  in  Article  IV  of  the  Articles  of  Incor- 
poration of  this  Association  a  notice  in  the  form  following;  that  is  to 
say: 

NOTICE  OF  DELINQUENT  SALE. 
Notice  is  hereby  given  that 

Whereas  on  the day  of ,  19—,  the  Board  of 

Governors  of  the  Salt  River  Valley  Water  Users'  Association  by  virtue 


of  the  powers  vested  in  it  by  the  Articles  of  Incorporation  of  the  said 
Association  and  of  the  by-laws  adopted  by  the  Council  thereof,  ordered 
the  levy  of  an  assessment  against  the  shareholders  of  said  Associa- 
tion and  declared  the  same  to  be  a  lien  on  the  lands  to  which  the 
shares  of  the  capital  stock  of  the  Association  of  the  several  share- 
holders are  appurtenant  of  $ •  per  share  one  half  thereof  to  be 

payable  on  the  first  Monday  of  September,  19 —  and  the  other  half  on 
the  first  Monday  of  March,    19 — ,   and 

Whereas  the  shareholders  mentioned  in  the  list  herein  below  print- 
ed have  failed  and  neglected  to  pay  the  amount  so  levied  against  them 
respectively. 

And  whereas  it  appears  that  all  proper  things  prescribed  by  said 
Articles  of  Tncorpoation  and  the  by-laws  of  said  Association  for  the 
making,  ordering  and  levying  of  said  assessments  to  fix  the  lien  thereof 
on  the  lands  to  which  said  shares  are  appurtenant  have  been  done. 

Now  therefore,  by  virtue  of  the  premises  and  of  the  power  con- 
ferred on  me  by  the  by-laws  of  said  Association,  I  will  offer  for  sale  at 
public  auction  to  best  bidder  for  th9  least  part  or  portion  thereof,  for  a 
sum  sufficient  to  pay  said  assessment  and  the  costs  of  this  advertisement 
and  of  said  sale,  the  lands  in  said  list  described  owned  by  the  person 
therein  named  for  the  amount  noted  against  them  respectively.  Said 
list  is  as  follows: 


Name  of  |  I    No.  of  acres 

Delinquent        j        Description  and  No. 

Shareholders      i  of  land  of  shares 


Amount 
Assessed 


Cost 


Total 


Said  sale  will  commence  at  10  o'clock  a.  m.  on  Monday  the 

day  of ,  19 — ,  at  the  front  door  of  the  court  house  of  Mar- 
icopa County,  Arizona,  and  there  continue  during  the  hours  of  10  a.  m. 
and  to  4  p.  m.  of  each  day,  from  day  to  day  until  all  said  property  or 
so  much  of  the  several  pieces  thereof  shall  be  sold  for  sums  sufficient  to 
pay  said  annual  assessment  and  the,  costs  aforesaid. 

Given  under  my  hand  this day  of  ,  19 — . 


Treasurer  Salt  River  Valley  Water  "Users'  Association. 

Said  notice  shall  be  published  on  the  same  week  day  of  at  least 
three  successive  weeks  in  said  newspaper. 

Section  16.  On  the  day  advertised  therefor,  the  treasurer  shall  at- 
tend at  10  o'clock  a.  m.  at  the  front  door  of  the  court  house  of  Marico- 
pa count}^  Arizona  and  then  and  there  offer  at  public  auction  and  sell 


13 

the  least  portion  of  the  lands  of  the  delinquent  shareholders  to  wh.ich 
the  shares  are  appurtenant,  that  will  sell  for  a  sum  sufficient  to  pay  the 
delinquent  assessment  and  'he  costs  levied  against  them  respectively. 

For  the  purpose  of  paying  the  costs  of  the  advertisement  of  such 
sales  the  treasurer  before  publishing  the  same  shall  add  to  and  collect  as 
a  part  of  each  assessment  the  sum  of  twenty-five  cents  (25c). 

Such  sales  shall  be  for  cash  and  the  property  sold  shall  be  openly 
struck  off  to  the  successful  bidder  therefor  and  a  note  in  writing  there- 
of instantly  made  by  the  treasurer  who  shall  act  as  clerk  of  said  sale,  on 
the  delinquent  list  or  a  copy  thereof.  Said  sales  shall  continue  from 
day  to  day  between  the  hours  of  ten  a.  m.  and  4  p.  m.  until  all  such 
property  shall  have  been  sold,  or  so  much  thereof  as  shall  be  necessary 
to  pay  said  delinquent  assessment. 

Section  17.  On  the  completion  of  each  of  said  sales  and  the  pay- 
ment of  the  purchase  price  therefor  by  the  purchaser,  to  the  treasurer, 
he  shall  make  out  and  deliver  to  the  purchaser  a  certificate.  The  cer^ 
tificate  shall  be  in  substantially  the  following  form: 

It  is  hereby  certified  that  on  the day  of ,  the 

Board  of  Governors  of  the  Salt  River  Valley  Water  Users^  Association 
made  and  ordered  an  assessment  for  the  ordinary'  expenses  of  operating, 
maintaining  and   rejoairing   its   irrigation      works      against     all     the 

shares    of    the    capital    stock    of    said    association    of   $ 

per    share,    and    declared    the    same    to    be    a    lien    on    the    lands 

•to    which    said    shares    are    respectively    appurtenant.      That 

is    the    owner    of shares  of    said    capital    stock    which 

ai-e     appurtenant     to     the     following    described    lands,    viz:    situated 

in     Maricopa     County,       Arizona,  and   being  — 

,  Township  ,  Eange  ,  East  Gila  and  Salt  River  Base  and 

Meridian  lines,  containing acres,  maldng  the  assessment  against 

said  shares  and  the  lien  on  said  lands  $ . 

That  said  shareholder  failed  and  neglected  to  pay  said  assessment 
within  the  time  prescribed  therefor,  by  said  order  of  assessment  and 
the  by-laws,  and  after  due  advertisement  as  prescribed  by  the  by-laws, 
I  sold  at  public  auction  the  following,  being  a  part  of  said  lands,  to-wit: 

Sec. Township ,  Range East,  containing acres,  to 

,  for  the  sum  of  $ ,  that  being  the   amount    of  said 

assessment  then  due  and  unpaid  and  costs,  and  that  being  the  smallest 
portion  of  said  lands  against  which  said  assessment  was  levied  that 
would  sell  at  such  sale  for  that  amount. 

If  said  land  last  hereinbefore  described  be  not  redeemed  as  pro- 
vided by  the  by-laws  of  said  association  then 


or  his  assigns  will  on  the  day  of ,  19 — ,  be  entitled  to 

a  deed  of  conveyance  thereof. 

Witness  nay  hand  in  duplicate  this day  of ,  19 — . 


Treasurer  Salt  River  Valley  Water  Users'  Association. 

(Ordinary  form  of  acknowledgment.) 

Section  18.  Said  certificate  shall  be  made  in  duplicate  one  af 
which  shaU  be  delivered  to  the  purchaser,  and  the  other  may  be  filed  arid 

recorded  with  the  Recorder  of  ^laricopa  county,  Arizona. 

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Section  19.  Before  delivering  the  certificate  as  above  prescribed 
to  the  purchaser,  the  treasurer  must  enter  in  a  book  to  be  kept  by  him 
for  that  purpose  the  name  of  the  shareholder  whose  land  was  so  sold, 
the  description  of  that  part  of  the  land  sold,  the  date  of  the  sale, 
the  name  of  the  purchaser  and  the  amount  of  the  price  for  which  the 
land  was  sold.  The  entries  in  such  book  shall  be  numbered  consecu- 
tively, and  the  corresponding  number  of  the  entry  shall  be  endorsed  on 
the  certificate  of  sale. 

The  book  so  kept  shall  remain  in  the  treasurer's  ofhce  and  shall  be 
open  to  the  public  inspection  duriag  business  hours  while  not  in  use  by 
the  treasurer  in  the  discharge  of  his  duties. 

Section  20.  If  by  any  reason  of  in*egularity  in  the  making  and  en- 
try of  the  order  of  any  assessment,  or  in  the  subsequent  proceedings  in 
these  by-laws  prescribed  for  the  enforcement  of  the  lien  for  such  assess- 
ment, the  sale  herein  provided  for  shall  be  adjudged  by  any  court  of  com- 
petent jurisdiction  to  be  invalid,  the  lien  for  such  assessment  shall  never 
theless  remain  undischarged  and  may  be  thereafter  enforced  as  provid- 
ed for  the  enforcement  of  the  pa}Tnent  of  delinquent  assessments. 

Section  21.  A  redemptioii  of  the  property  sold  may  be  made  by 
the  owner  thereof,  or  any  party  in  interest,  within  12  months  from  the 
date  of  sale  or  at  any  time  thereafter  prior  to  the  application  for  a  deed 
by  the  purchaser  or  his  assigns  as  hereinafter  provided. 

Section  22.  A  redemption  is  effected  by  the  pa3^ment  by  the  re- 
demptioner  to  the  treasurer  of  the  association  for  the  use  of  the  pur- 
chaser or  his  assigns  the  amount  of  the  purchase  money  with  interest 
thereon  at  the  rate  of  3  per  cent  per  month  from  the  date  of  the  sale 
to  the  date  of  redemption.  Upon  such  pa^Tuent  to  the  treasurer,  the 
treasurer  shall  make  out  and  c^eliver  to  the  redemptioner  a  certificate 
in  substantially  the  following  form: 

Certificate  of  Sale  No.  


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SALT  EIVEE  VALLEY  WATER    USEES'    ASSOCIATION^ 
TEEASUEEK'S     OFFICE. 

'  Phoenix, ,  19 — . 

This  is  to  certify  that ,  owner  of  the  lands  hereinafter 

descrihed  has  this  day  paid  to  the    treasurer  of  the  Salt  Eiver  Valley 

Water  L' sers'  Association  the  sum  of dollars  in  redemption 

of ,  Section ,  Township ,  Eange — ,  East  Mar- 
icopa County,  Arizona,  from  a  sale  thereof  made  by  said  treasurer  for 

delinquent  assessments  made  on  the day  of ,  19 — , 

said  sum  being  the  amount  of  purchase  money  therefor  and  interest 
thereon  at  the  rate  of  4  per  cent  per  month  from  date  of  such  sale  to 
this  date.  Said  sum  is  paid  for  the  use  of  the  purchaser  at  such  sale 
or  his  assigns. 


Treasurer  S.  E.  V.  W.  U.  Ass'n. 


Section  23.  Upon  the  redemption  of  any  lands  from  a  sale  as  here 
in  provided  the  treasurer  shall  note  on  the  book  wherein  such  sale  is 
entered  the  fact  of  such  redemption  by  writing  or  stamping  opposite 
said  entry  tlie  word  "redeemed/'^  the  date  of  the  redemption,  by  whom 
redeemed  and  the  amount  paid  for  redemption. 

Section  24.  If  the  redemptioner  shall  require  it  the  president 
and  the  secretary  of  the  association  shall  also  join  in  the  execution  of 
the  redemption  certificate  prescribed  by  section  22  and  acknowledge 
the  same  in  the  form  prescribed  by  law  for  the  acknowledgment 
of  deeds  of  conveyance  of  real  estate.  The  cost  of  acknowledgment 
shall  b  paid  by  the  redemptioner  as  a  part  of  the  redemption  money. 

Section  25.  Whenever  any  lands  are  redeemed  from  sale  under 
the  provisions  of  these  by-laws  the  redemption  money  shall  be  kept  by 
the  treasurer,  in  a  separate  and  distinct  fund  until  paid  out  as  herein- 
after prescribed,  to  be  known  as  the  "Eedemption  IHind/'  When  any 
purchaser  of  lands  which  have  been  redeemed  from  the  sale  or  his  as- 
signs shall  produce  to  the  treasurer  the  certificate  of  sale  and  it  ap- 
pears to  the  satisfaction  of  the  treasurer  that  the  holder  thereof  is  the 
owner  thereof,  the  treasurer  shall  thereupon  pay  him  the  redemption 
money,  and  shall  take  up  the  certificate  of  sale  and  plainly  and  indelli- 
bly  mark  across  the  face  thereof  the  words  "redeemed  and  cancelled/^ 
stating  the  date  of  the  cancelation  and  shall  thereafter  preserve  such 
cancelled  certificate  among  other  records  and  papers  of  his  office. 


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Section  26.  If  the  land  is  not  redeemed  within  the  time  and  in 
the  manner  hereinbefore  prescribed,  the  purchaser  or  his  assigns  may 
apply  to  the  treasurer  for  a  deed  therefor^  by  presenting  to  him  the  cer- 
tificate of  sale  and  proper  evidence  of  his  ownership  thereof.  There- 
upon the  treasurer  shall  make  out  a  deed  for  the  land  so  sold  to  the 
purchaser  or  his  proper  assign. 

Said  deed  shall  recite  substantially  the  matters  contained  in  the 
certificate  of  sale  and  the  further  facts  that  the  land  has  not  been  re- 
deemed from  the  sale  and  that  the  time  for  redemption  has  expired. 
The  treasurer  shall  collect  of  the  purchaser  the  sum  of  50  cents  to  de- 
fray the  cost  of  making  and  acknowledging  the  deed. 

The  deed  shall  be  in  the  name  of  the  asociation  and  shall  be  sign- 
ed and  acknowledged  by  the  president  and  secretaiy. 

ELECTIONS. 

Adopted  July  24th,  1903. 

Section  1.  General  elections  shall  be  held  on  the  first  Tuesday  of 
April  of  each  year.  Special  elections  shall  be  held  as  in  these  by-laws 
hereinafter  provided. 

Section  2.  At  least  thirty  days  before  any  general  elections  the 
secretary  of  the  association  shall  cause  to  be  published  in  two  news- 
papers pubHshed  and  of  general  circulation  in  the  Eeservoir  District, 
one  on  the  north  and  one  on  the  south  of  the  river  to  be  designated  by 
the  Board  of  Governors,  a  notice  stating  the  time  of  holding  of  such 
election,  the  offices  to  be  filled  thereby,  and  what  if  any  proposition  is 
to  be  voted  on  by  the  shareholders  at  such  election. 

Such  notice  shall  be  published  in  every  regular  issue  of  the  news- 
paper, in  which  it  is  designated  to  be  published,  after  its  first  publica- 
tion until  the  day  of  election. 

Section  3.  At  least  five  (5)  days  before  the  day  fixed  by  the  ar- 
ticles of  incorporation  for  any  general  election,  or  appointed  as  herein- 
after provided,  for  any  special  election,  the  seci^ary  shall  make  out  an 
election  register.  Such  election  register  shall  deuote  the  names 
of  the  shareholders  of  the  association,  the  number  of  shares  owned  by 
them  respectively  which  they  are  entitled  to  vote  and  the  ooiuicil  dis- 
trict in  which  the  land  to  which  such  shares  are  appurienant,  is  situ- 
ated. The  list  shall  be  made  into  parts  so  that  the  names  of  all  the 
holders  of  shares  appurtenant  to  lands  in  the  several  council  districts 
shall  appear  collectively  under  the  headings  for  the  several  districts  and 
the  names  therein  shall  be  alphabetically  arranged.  The  lists  shall  be 
in  substantially  the  following  form. 


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SAI.T  EIVER  VALLEY  WATER  USERS'  ASSOCIATION. 

Election  List. 

Election 19—. 

Lands  in  First  Council  District. 

Entitled  to 
Voting  Names  vote  No. 

No.  shares. 

Section  4.  Said  register  shall  contain  the  names  of  those  share- 
holders only,  who  appear  on  the  records  of  the  association  to  he  share- 
holders on  the  tenth  (10th)  day  hefore  the  day  of  election 
and  no  shareholder's  name  shall  he  entered  in  said  register 
more  than  once,  provided,  however,  if  a  shareholder  he  the 
owT3er  of  lands  in  more  than  one  district  to  which 
shares  are  appurtenant  he  may  designate  to  the  secretary,  at  least  5 
days  hefore  the  day  of  the  election,  the  numher  of  shares  he  wishes  to 
vote  in  each  of  such  districts,  not  exceeding,  however,  in  the  aggre- 
gate, 160  votes  in  all,  and  the  secretim^  shall  so  enter  his  name  on  the 
register  under  the  appropriate  headings. 

Section  5.  No  shareholder  shall  he  allowed  to  vote  unless  his  name 
shall  appear  on  the  election  register,  nor  shall  he  cast  more  votes  than 
the  numher  of  votes  to  which  he  is  entitled  to  vote  as  shown  thereby 
in  the  distncts  wherein  he  tenders  his  ballot. 

Section  6.  As  soon  as  such  election  register  shall  have  been  pre- 
pared, the  secretary  shall  cause,  at  least  two  hundred  (200)  copies 
thereof  to  be  printed.  Of  these  printed  copies,  the  secretary  shall 
cause  1  copy  to  be  posted  in  his  office,  and  deliver,  upon  demand,  1 
copy  each  to  the  President  and  Board  of  Governors  of  this  x\ssociation, 
and  transmit  at  least  three  copies  to  each  Board  of  Election;  preserve 
five  (5)  copies  in  his  office  for  inspection  of  electors,  and  of  the  remain- 
der deliver  one  to  each  elector  of  the  Association  requesting  the  same, 
until  the  edition  is  exhausted. 

Section  7.  At  least  ten  (10)  days  before  the  day  appointed  for  any 
election,  general  or  special,  the  Board  of  Governors  shall  appoint,  for 
each  voting  precinct,  from  among  the  shareholders  of  this  Associa- 
tion, resident  therein,  one  inspector  and  two  judges  who  shall  appoint 
two  clerks  and  they  shall  constitute  the  election  board  for  that  precinct. 

Section  8.  If  the  Board  of  Governors  shall  fail  to  appoint  a  board 
of  election,  or  if  all  or  any  of  the  members  appointed,  shall  fail  to  at- 
tend the  polls  for  service  as  meml>ers  thereof  by  eight  o'clock  of  the 


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morning  of  the  election  the  electors  of  the  precinct     present  at  that 
hour  may  appoint  a  board  or  supply  the  places  of  those  absent. 

Section  9.  Before  opening  the  polls  the  election  board  shall 
cause  two  printed  copies  of  the  election  register  to  be  posted  near  the 
polls  and  easy  of  access  by  the  electors^  and  there  maintained  during 
the  day. 

OFFICIAL  BALLOTS. 

Section  10.  All  ballots  cast  at  elections  by  the  shareholders  of 
this  association  shall  be  famished^  printed  and  distributed  by  the  as- 
sociation and  shall  be  in  fonn.  size,  color  as  hereinafter  prescribed. 

Section  1 1.  The  names  of  candidates  for  the  several  offices  to  ba 
filled  at  any  election  of  this  association  shall  be  printed  upon  the  offi- 
cial ballot,  if  such  persons  be  eJigible  to  the  oiHce  for  which  they  are 
candidates,  upon  the  ^vritten  petition  therefore  by  not  less  than  five  per 
cent  of  the  shareholders  owning  land  in  the  Eeservoir  District  if  it  be 
for  a  general  office  or  in  the  council  district  if  it  be  for  councilman  or 
member  of  the  Board  of  Governors. 

There  shall  be  left  a  blank  space  for  an  additional  name  to  be 
voted  for  for  each  office,  and  which  blank  space  the  voter  may  write  tbe 
name  of  any  persons  whom  he  wishes  to  vote  for,  for  said  office,  in  the 
same  manner  as  he  would  vote  for  a  person  whose  name  is  printed  on 
the  ballot. 

Such  petition  or  petitions  must^  however,  be  filed  with  the  secretary 
of  the  association,  at  least,  five  days  before  the  election. 

Section  12.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Board  of  Governors  to 
prepare  and  provide,  as  hereinaiter  prescribed,  ballots  printed  on  white 
paper  containing  the  names  of  the  candidates  to  be  voted  for  at  the 
election,  the  printing  of  whose  names  thereon  have  been  petitioned  for 
as  hereinbefore  provided. 

Such  ballots  shall  be  in  substantially  the  following  form. 

Stub  !Ni  o. —  To  be  torn  off  by  the  Inspector. 


SALT  RIYER  VALLEY  WATER  USERS'  ASSOCIATION. 

Election 19—. 

OFFICIAL  BALLOT. 

COUNCIL  DISTRICT. 

No.  of  votes  elector  entitled  to 

Note.  (The  number  of  votes  marked  in  the  spaces  must  not  exceed  the 


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number  you  are  entitled  to  as  above  noted^  nor  miist  the  aggregate 
of  votes  cast  for  any  office  exceed  that  number.) 

So  fold  your  ballot  that  all  of  this    will   be  exposed   to    the  In- 
spector. 

FOR  PRESIDENT..  Votes. 

Martin  Van  Buren  

James  Buchanan  

Millard  Eillmore  


FOR  VICE  PRESIDENT 
Chester  A.  Arthur 
Eugene  Hale 


FOR  MEMBER  OF  COUNCIL 
for  1  year  term 

(One  to  elect.) 

A.  B.  

C.  D.  


FOR  MEMBER  OF  COUNCIL 
for  2  year  term 

(One  to  elect.) 

G.H.  

I.  J.  


FOR  MEMBER  OF  COUNCIL 
for  3  year  term 

(One  to  elect.) 


L.  M. 
N.  0. 


FOR  MEMBER  OF  COUNCHi 
(To  fill  vacancy) 

(One  to  elect.) 

R.  S.  

T.U.  


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FOR  MEMBER    OF    BOARD   OF 
GOVERNORS. 

(One  to  elect.) 

X.  Y.  

Z.  A.  


FOR  THE  RATIFICATION  OF 
PROPOSED  CONTRACT  WITH 
U.  S.  WITH  REFERENCE  TO 
CONSTRUCTION  OF  RESER- 
VOIR AND  TERMS  AND  CONDI- 
TIONS. 

Yes 

No. 


Section  13.  The  Board  of  Goyernors  shall  deliver  or  cause  to  be 
delivered  to  the  inspector  of  each  voting  precinct  one  package  of  200 
official  baUots  for  each  50  voters  and  100  for  each  fractional  part  there- 
of whose  names  appear  on  the  election  register  as  voters  therein.  Such 
delivery  shall  he  at  least  12  hours  before  the  hour  fixed  for  the  open- 
ing of  the  polls.  '^  i 
,              [      CONDUCT  OF  ELECTION. 

Section  14.  The  Board  of  Governors  shall  cause  all  polling 
places  to  be  suitably  provided  with  a  sufficient  numljer  of  voting 
booths  or  compartments,  furnished  with  convenient  shelves  on  which 
voters  can  conveuiently  mark  their  ballots  and  in  the  marking  thereof 
be  screened  from  observation  by  others,  and  T^dth  pencils  with  which  to 
enable  the  voter  to  mark  his  billot  for  voting.  They  shall  also  sup- 
ply the  polling  places  with  proper  ballot  boxes  and  such  tables,  chairs 
and  stationery  as  may  be  convenient  therefor. 

Section  15.  One  of  the  clerks  appointed  as  hereinbefore  provided, 
shall  be  designated  by  the  Board  to  act  as  Ballot  Clerk  and  the  other 
as  Polling  Clerk. 

The  ballot  clerk  shall  at  all  times  be  under  the  supervision  of  the 
Inspector  and  shall  keep  the  bollats.  not  voted,  within  the  polling  place 
and  within  plain  view  of  the  election  board  and  the  public  and  deliver 
them  only  to  qualified  voters  as  hereinafter  prescribed. 

Every  qualified  voter  before  receiving  an  official  ballot  shall  call 
out  his  name  to  the  ballot  clerks.  If  his  name  be  found  on  the  elec- 
tion register,  the  ballot  clerk  shall  then  hand  him  a  blank  official  bal- 
lot, first  inserting  with  pen  and  ink  in  the  sp^ge  provided  for  that  pur- 


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pose  the  number  of  votes  which  he  is  entitled  to  cast,  to  be  ascertained 
from  the  election  register.  The  ballot  clerk  shall  also,  before  deliver- 
ing the  ballot  to  the  applicant  therefor,  wnte  his  name  on  the  stub 
thereto  and  shall  call  audibly  to  the  polling  clerk  the  name  of  the  appli- 
cant and  the  number  of  votes  to  which  he  is  entitled,  which  the  polling 
clerk  shall  enter  in  the  poll  list  in  the  order  of  the  application  for 
ballots. 

After  the  voter  shall  have  received  his  ballot  he  may  retire  to 
mark  it.  Having  marked  his  ballot  he  shall  hand  the  same  to  the  in- 
spector, in  such  shape  that  the  inspector  may  easily  see  the  number  of 
votes  to  which  the  voter  is  entitled  as  marked  on  his  ballot  by  the 
ballot  clerk.  ITie  Inspector  shall  then  first  call  out  the  name  of  the 
voter  and  the  number  of  votes  he  is  entitled  to  cast  as  marked  aforesaid, 
the  polling  clerk  shall  compare  the  number  so  called  with  that  indicat- 
ed in  the  election  register,  and  if  they  agree  he  shall  so  announce,  au- 
dibly, to  the  inspector.  The  inspector  shall  then  tear  off  the  stub  at 
the  perforated  line,  leaving  the  number  of  votes  the  voter  is  entitled 
to  on  the  ballot  and  deposit  the  ballot  in  the  ballot  box,  and  announce 
that  it  is  voted,  which  fact  shall  then  be  noted  by  the  polling  clerk  op- 
posite the  voter's  name  on  his  list.  The  inspector  shall  then  file  the 
stub  on  a  string  to  be  used  by  him  for  that  purpose.  If,  when  the 
inspector  announces  the  name  of  the  voter  tendering  him  a  ballot  and 
the  number  of  votes  he  is  entitled  to  as  indicated  by  the  mark  on  the 
ballot,  it  should  be  found  that  the  number  so  marked  does  not  cor- 
respond with  the  number  of  votes  the  voter  is  entitled  to  as  shown  by 
the  election  register  the  ballot  shall  not  be  balloted  but  shall  be  handed 
to  the  ballot  clerk  who  shall  destroy  the  same  without  noting  or  mak 
ing  known  its  contents  or  any  or  them;  and  the  ballot  clerk  shall  there- 
upon on  demand,  deliver  to  the  voter  a  new  ballot  properly  indicating 
the  number  of  votes  to  which  he  is  entitled. 

If  the  voter  should,  in  marking  his  ballot,,  accidentally  or  by  mis- 
take wrongly  mark  it,  he  may  surrender  it  to  the  ballot  clerk  who  shall 
give  him  a  new  one  in  lieu  thereof  properly  marked  with  the  number 
of  votes  to  which  he  is  entitled  and  destroy  the  old  one  so  surrendered 
without  noting  or  making  its  contents  known.  When  the  inspectoT- 
shall  announce  that  a  voter  has  voted,  that  fact  shall  be  noted  on  one 
of  the  copies  of  the  election  register  by  one  of  the  judges. 

Section  16.  The  voter  to  indicate  the  person  for  whom  he  votes 
and  the  number  of  votes  he  wishes  to  cast  for  that  candidate  shall  write 
in  the  space  to  the  right  of  the  name  of  the  candidate  he  votes  for,  the 
number  of  votes  he  casts  for  him.  If  the  A^oter  wishes  to  cast  votes  for 
several  candidates  for  the  same  office  he  may    do  so  by    marking  in 


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figures  the  number  of  votes  he  ca^ts  for  the  several  candidates  but  in 
no  event  shall  he  mark  opposite  any  candidate's  name  a  greater  number 
of  votes  than  that  indicated  by  the  clerk  in  the  space  at  the  top  of  the 
ballot  made  for  that  purpose,  nor  shall  the  aggregate  of  the  votes  he 
casts  for  several  candidates  for  the  same  office  exceed  ihat  number. 

Section  17.     Substantially  the  following  form  of  poll  list  shall  be 
used. 

SALT  KIVEE  VALLEY  WATER  USERS'  ASSOCIATION. 

Poll  List. 

Of  the  election  held  in  the ^precinct  in  the council  dis- 
trict of  the  above  Association,  on ^  the day  of 19 — . 

JITDGE. 

JUDGE. 

INSPECTOR 

POLL  CLERK. 


NO.  NAMES  REG.    NO.  VOTES  VOTED. 

1 

2 

3 

4 

&c. 

We  certify  that  the  number  of  votes  cast  at  tliis  election  amounts 
to  "- — . 

Attest Inspector Judge 

. Judge Ballot  Clerk 

Poll  Clerk. 

Section  18.     The  counting  sheets  shall  be  in  substantially  the  fol- 
lowing form: 

SALT  RIVER  VALLEY  WATER  USERS'  ASSOCIATION. 

Counting  sheet  showing  names  of  candidates  for  the  various  oflices 
named  belawand  the  number  of  votes  cast  for  them  respectively. 


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President 

Vice-President 

Councilman  1st  Dist. 

1 

d 

o 

a 
S 

1 
»^ 

16   0 

1       1   0 

1 

1 

1   0 

2   0 

1 
1 

■    1 

17   0 

3   0 

&c. 

We  hereby  certify  that 
tion  for ;  that 


—  received votes  at  said  elec- 

received votes  for &c,  &c. 


ELECTION  BOARD 


Section  19.  No  poll  list,  counting  sheet  or  other  paper  shall  he  re^ 
jected  or  set  aside  for  mere  irregularity  so  long  as  its  proper  purport 
can  he  ascertained  with  reasonable  certainty. 

Section  30.  No  ballot  shall  he  rejected  for  want  of  strict  compli- 
ance with  the  provisions  of  these  by-laws,  if  by  inspection  thereof,  it  can 
be,  with  reasonable  certainty,  determined  that  the  voter  has  not  cast 
more  votes  than  he  is  entitled  to  cast,  and  for  whom  he  intended  to 
cast.  I 

If  a  voter  shall  have  attempted  to  cast  more  votes  than  he  is  en- 
titled to  cast,  as  shown  by  the  ballot  clerk's  mark  on  his  ballot,  the  ex- 
cess shall  be  rejected  and  the  number  indicated  by  the  mark  of  the  bal- 
lot clerk  shall  be  coimted  as  voted.  If  a  voter  shall  cast  ballots  for 
more  than  one  candidate  for  an  oftlce  and  the  aggregate  thereof  does 
not  exceed  the  number  of  votes  he  is  ^titled  to  cast  to  be  determined  by 
reference  to  the  ballot  clerk's  mark  on  the  ballot,  the  votes  shall  be 
counted  as  cast;  if,  b.owever,  the  aggregate  number  attempted  to  be  cast 
for  several  candidates  for  the  same  office  exceed  the  number  the  voter 
is  entitled  to  cast,  then  none  of  the  votes  so  attempted  to  be  cast  for 
candidates  for  that  oflfice  shall  be  counted. 

Section  21.  Whenever  the  board  of  election  rejects  a  ballot  or  a 
part  of  a  ballot  that  fact  and  the  reason  therefor  shall  be  briefly 
noted  on  the  ballot  and  signed  by  the  inspector  and  one  of  the  judges 


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or  by  both  judges,  and  the  ballot  shall  be  preserved  and  returned  as 
other  ballots  and  papers  are  required  to  be  returned. 

Section  22.  The  election  board  must  refuse  to  receive  or  allow  to 
be  deposited  in  the  ballot  box  any  ballot  that  may  be  offered  if  it  be 
apparent  that  the  provisions  of  these  by-laws  relative  thereto  have  not 
been  substantially  complied  with.  '  '     ; 

Section  23.  The  polls  shall  be  opened  at  S  o'clock  a.  m.  on  elec- 
tion day.  the  standard  time  to  be  midway  between  mountain  (or  105 
Meridian)  and  Pacific  (or  120  Meridian)  times,  or  what  is  commonly 
known  as  Phoenix  city  time,  and  shall  remain  open  until  5  o'clock, 
same  (Standard)  time.  i       /       ' 

Section  24.  As  soon  as  the  polls  are  finally  closed  the  election 
board  shall  immediately  proceed  to  canvass  the  votes  given  at  the  elec- 
tion in  its  precinct.  The  canvass  must  be  public  and  must  be  con- 
tinued without  adjournment  until  completed  and  result  publicly  de- 
clared. 

Section  25.  The  canvass  must  be  commenced  by  taldng  the  bal- 
lots without  examiuation  to  observe  their  contents,  and  counting  the 
same,  to  ascertain  whether  the  number  corresponds  with  the  number  of 
names  on  the  list  kept  by  the  polling  clerk  and  noted  thereon  as  voting. 

Section  26.  If  two  or  more  ballots  are  found  folded  together  the 
board  shall  deterfine,  if  it  can.  whether  such  duplication  or  multiplica 
tion  was  intentional.  Tf  the  Board  should  conclude  that  snch  duplica- 
tion was  accidental  then  all  hut  one  of  them  shall  be  rejected  and  one 
retained,  otherwise  they  shall  all  be  rejected. 

Section  27.  If  upon  a  count  the  number  of  ballots  in  the  box 
should  be  in  excess  of  the  number  shown  by  the  poll  list  to  have  been 
voted,  the  ballots  shall  be  returned  to  the  ballot  box,  and  the  inspector 
shall  then  draw  therefrom  without  selection,  one  at  a  time  a  number 
of  ballots  equal  to  such  excels,  and  destroy  them.  The  board  shall 
then  sign  the  poll  list  showing  the  number  of  persons  who  A^oted  which 
must  agree  with  the  number  of  ballots  to  be  counted. 

Section  28.  After  the  poll  114  has  been  signed  as  above  provided 
for  the  board  shall  proceed  to  coun£  the  votes  cast  for  the  various  can- 
didates and  keep  count  thereof  as  they  are  read  aloud.  As  each  bal- 
lot is  counted  or  rejected  it  shall  be  strung  on  a  string  by  one  of  the 
judges  and  preserved  and  returned  as  hereinafter  provided. 

Section  29.  "\Ylien  all  the  ballots  have  been  strung  they  shall  be 
placed  in  an  envelope  and  sealed,  and  the  inspector  and  the  judges 
shall  endorse  the  envelope  with  their  signatures  across  the  seal  thereof. 


Section  30.  In  counting  the  votes  and  recording  them  on  the 
counting  list  of  which  there  shall  be  two  one  to  be  kept  by  each  clerk, 
the  inspector  or  one  of  the  judges  designated  by  him  for  that  pui-- 
pose,  shall  call  off  from  each  ballot  to  be  counted,  the  number  of  votes 
cast  and  to  be  counted  for  each  candidate  and  each  clerk  shall  note  the 
same  on  his  counting  list  under  its  appropriate  heading.  In  counting 
whenever  votes  from  five  ballots  shall  have  been  called  o:ffi  for  any  can- 
didate for  an  office  the  calling  shall  cease  and  the  votes  for  all  the  cani- 
didates  for  that  office  shall  be  summed  up  and  the  sums  in  figures  set 
down  in  their  proper  columns,  and  when  the  votes  from  an  additional 
five  ballots  shall  have  been  counted  for  a  candidate  for  that  office  the 
votes  shall  again  be  added  to  those'  already  added  and  so  on  until  all  the 
votes  for  all  the  candidates  have  been  counted,  added  and  the  sum  of 
the  votes  for  each  of  the  candidates  shall  have  been  so  ascertained  and 
noted  on  the  counting  sheet.  The  members  of  the  board  shall  then 
certify  to  the  correctness  of  the  counting  sheet,  and  shall  to  the  poll 
list  append  their  certificate  of  the  number  of  votes  received  by  each 
candidate. 

Section  31.  Before  the  board  adjourns  it  must  enclose  in  a  cover 
under  seal,  directed  to  the  secretary  of  the  association  the  copy  of  the 
election  register  on  which  was  noted  the  fact  that  the  persons  therein 
named  voted  as  the  ballots  were  received  the  poll  list  and  one  of  the 
counting  sheets. 

Section  32.  The  inspector  shall  retain  the  ballot  box  in  which  he 
shall  deposit  one  of  the  counting  sheets  and  the  ballots  cast  at  the 
election  for  the  period  of  thirty  days,  w^hen  he  shall  deliver  the  same 
unopened  to  the  secretary  of  the  association. 

Section  33.  The  sealed  package  containing  the  register,  the  poll 
list  and  the  counting  sheet  shall,  before  the  board  adjourns,  be  deliver- 
ed to  one  of  the  board  to  be  designated  by  it,  who  shall  thereafter  with- 
out delay  deliver  the  same  unopened  to  the  secretary  of  the  association. 

Section  34.  Upon  the  receipt  of  such  package  the  secretary  must 
note  thereon  the  day  and  hour  of  its  receipt  and  thereafter  safely  keep 
the  same  and  produce  it  unopened  before  the  Board  of  Governors 
when  it  is  in  session  for  the  purpose  of  canvassing  the  returns. 

Section  35.  The  Board  of  Governors  must  meet  at  its  usual  place 
of  meeting  at  10  o'clock  a.  m.  on  the  1st  Monday  after  each  election 
to  canvass  the  returns.  If  all  the  returns  are  not  then  in,  the  board 
may  adjourn  to  await  them,  from  day  to  day,  but  not  altogether  for 
more  than  six  days. 

Section  36.     The  canvass  must  be  made  in  public  and  by  opening 


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the  retuTDs  and  ascertaining  tlie  inimber  of  votes  received  by  each  can- 
didate for  office  or  for  or  against  ajiy  proposition     submitted     to     the 

shareholders,  recording  the  same  and  declaring  the  result. 

Section  37.  The  secretary  as  soon  as  the  result  of  the  election  is 
determined  shall  enter  on  the  records  of  the  Board  of  GoYemors  a  state- 
ment of  such  result  which  statement  must  show: 

1.  The  whole  number  of  votes  cast  in  each  council  district  and 
the  aggregate  number  for  the  A\hole  reservoir  district. 

2.  The  name  of  the  person  for  the  office  for  which  he  Avas  voted 
and  the  number  of  votes  received  by  him:  and  if  a  proposition  shall 
have  been  submitted  to  the  shareholders,  the  general  nature  of  the 
proposition  and  the  number  of  votes  cast  for  or  against  it. 

Section  38.  The  Board  of  Governors  must  declare  elected  the 
persons  receiving  the  highest  number  of  votes  given  for  that  office  and 
enter  that  fact  of  record. 

Section  39.  The  secretar}^  sliall  thereupon  make  out  and  deliver 
or  send  to  each  person  so  declared  elected  a  certificate  of  his  said  elec- 
tion., signed  b}^  the  president  and  secretary  and  authenticated  by  the 
seal  of  the  association.  y^«  3 

Section  40.  Whenever  it  shall  be  proposed  by  the  Board  of  Gover- 
nors to  undertake  any  work,  make  any  purchase  or  incur  or  authoiize 
any  indebtedness  except  for  the  ordinary  operation,  maintenance  and 
repair  of  the  works  and  business  of  the  association,  the  cost  or  amount 
whereof  in  any  one  year  shall  or  may  exceed  fifty  thousand  dollars,  a 
special  election  may  be  called  for  tiie  purpose  of  submitting  the  ques- 
tion of  the  ratification  thereof  to  the  shareholders  of  the  association  in 
the  manner  hereinafter  provided. 

Section  41.  If  the  proposed  undertaking  be  one  contemplated  by 
Section  2  of  Article  IV  of  the  Articles  of  Incorporation  of  this  associa- 
tion, and  the  Board  of  Governors  approve  the  same,  it  shall  signify  its 
approval  by  a  resolution  which  resolution  shall  identify  the  piopo.-ed 
undertaking  by  some  characteristic  denomination.  Such  resolution 
shall  be  entered  of  record  in  the  minutes  of  the  board  and  a  certified 
copy  thereof  accompanied  by  a  copy  of  the  proposed  undeitakiiig 
shall  be  transmitted  to  the  chairman  of  the  council  of  this  association. 

Section  42.  Upon  the  receipt  by  the  chairman  of  the  council  of 
the  said  resolution  and  proposed  undertaking  he  shall  issue  his  call  for 
a  special  meeting  of  the  council  if  there  be  no  regular  or  adjourned 
meeting  thereof  then  appointed  fo.'  a  time  within  11  days  of  the  time 
of  the  receipt  of  said  copy  of  said  resolution  and  proposed  undertak- 


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ing.  Said  call  shall  specify  a  day  and  ho^ur  for  said  special  meeting 
which  day  shall  be  not  more  than  10  nor  less  than  5  days  from 
the  date  thereof;  and  shall  state  the  fact  that  a  proposition  designating 
by  the  denomination  adopted  by  the  Board  of  G-overnors  has  been 
approved  by  the  Board  and  transmitted  to  the  Council  for 
its  consideration,  and  that  the  meeting  is  called  for  the  purpose 
of  considering  the  same.  Said  call  shall  bear  date  of  the  date  of  its 
issue,  be  signed  by  the  chairman  and  countersigned  by  the  clerk  of 
the  council  and  written  or  printed  copy  thereof  shall  be  delivered  or 
sent  forthwith  to  each  member  of  the  council  then  within  the  reser- 
voir district. 

Section  43.  On  the  day  fixed  in  the  call  or  its  meeting  then  ap- 
pointed within  11  days  next  after  the  transmission  of  said  resoluiion 
and  proposed  undertaking  to  the  chairman,  the  council  shall  meet  at 
its  usual  place  of  meeting  and  consider  the  resolution  and  proposed 
undertaking.  If  the  council  shall  approve  the  same  they  shall  adopt 
a  resolution  to  that  effect  and  transmit  the  same  with  all  the  papers  in 
the  matter  to  the  secretary  of  the  association. 

Section  44.  On  the  receipt  by  the  secretary  of  the  resolution  of 
the  council  approving  the  proposed  undertaking  the  secretary  shall 
forthwith  cause  a  copy  of  the  proposed  undertaking  to  be  printed  in  a 
newspapers  published  and  of  general  circulation  in  the  Eeservoir  District 
to  be  designated  by  the  Board  of  Governors  which  publication  shall  be 
at  least  30  days  before  the  election  to  be  called  for  the  ratification  or  re- 
jection thereof  by  the  shareholders. 

Section  45.  The  secretary  shall  also  issue  a  notice  of  a  special 
election  for  the  purpose  of  submitting  the  question  of  ratifjdng  or  re- 
jecting the  proposed  undertaking  to  the  shareholders.  Said  notice 
shall  be  in  substantially  the  followdng  form. 

SALT  EIVER  VALLEY  WATER  USERS'  ASSOCIATIOISr. 

lN"otice  of  Special  Election. 

N'otice  is  hereby  given  that  on ,  the day  of 

19 — ,  a  special  election  by  the  shareholders  of  the  Salt  River  Valley 
AYater  Users'  Association  will  be  held  for  the  ratification  or  rejection 
of  a  proposed  undertaking  and  arrangement  by  and.  between  the  Gov- 
ernment of  the  United  States  and  the  Salt  River  aVlley  Water  Users'  As- 
sociation concerning  the  construction  by  the  Government  of  the  Unit- 
ed States  of  a  reservoir  and  other  irrigation  works  for  the  benefit  of 
the  shareholders  of  this  association,  a  copy  whereof  may  be  seen  at  the 
office  of  the  secretary  of  this  association,  and  a  copy  of  which  was  pub- 
lished in  the on  the day  of ,  19 — . 


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The  shareholders  will  Tote  yes  or  no  on  the  proposition  as  they 
express  their  ratification  or  rejection  of  it. 

The  election  will  be  governed  bv  the  by-laws  governing  general 
elections  of  the  association  so  far  as  they  apply.       Witness     my    hand 

this day  of ,  19—. 

. Secretary. 

Salt  River  Valley  Water  Users'  Association. 
Section  46.  The  day  for  the  election  shall  be  fixed  by  the  Board  of 
Governors  and  the  notice  thereof  as  above  prescribed  shall  be  published 
in  three  newspapers  published  and  of  general  circulation  in  the  Eeser- 
voir  District:  one  in  Phoenix,  one  in  Tempe  and  one  in  Mesa.  The 
first  of  said  publications  shall  be  at  least  30  days  before  the  day  fixed 
for  the  election  and  shall  continue  in  each  regular  issue  of  said  news- 
papers, respectively,  until  the  day  of  election. 

Section  47.  The  ballots  for  said  election,  shall  instead  of  the 
names  of  candidates  and  offices,  contain  the  proposition:  "Shall  the 
proposed  arrangement  and  undertaking  between  the  Government  of  the 
United  States  and  the  Salt  River  Valley  Water  Users'  Association  con- 
cerning the  consti-uction  by  the  Government  of  the  United  States  of 
a  reservoir  and  other  irrigation  works  for  the  benefit  of  the  share- 
holders of  this  association,  a  copy  whereof  may  be  seen  at  the  office 
of  the  secretary  of  this  association  and  a  copy  of  which  was  publish  el 
in  the on  the day  of ,  be  ratified.'' 

Yes 

No 


Otherwise  the  ballots  shall  be  as  those  prescribed  for  general 
elections  of  the  association  so  far  as  those  provisions  are  applicable. 

Section  48.  Such  election  shall  be  conducted,  the  vote  counted, 
the  returns  made  and  canvassed  and  the  result  declared  as  is  provided 
bv  these  by-laws  for  general  elections  making  proper  adaptations  there- 
to. 

Section  49.  Not  more  than  30  nor  less  than  10  days  before  any 
election  the  Board  of  Goverruors  shall  by  resolution  spread  on  the  min- 
utes of  its  proceedings  establish  election  precincts.  The  council  dis- 
tricts shall  each  constitute  an  election  precinct  but  the  board  may  di- 
^dde  them  or  any  of  them  into  two  or  more  precincts  as  the  couAen- 
ience  of  the  voters  therein  may  require. 

Section  50.  In  its  resolution  establishing  election  precincts  the 
board  shall  also  designate  the  location  of  the  polling  places  therein  re- 
spectively. 


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Section  51.  The  Board  of  Governor  shall  cause  notice  to  be  pub- 
lished in  at  least  three  newspapers  published  and  of  general  circula- 
tion in  the  Heservoir  District  stating  the  boundaries  of  or  otherwise 
suffioien/tly  denoting  the  election  precincts,  and  the  names  of  the  elec- 
tion officers  appointed  therein,  and  designating  the  polling  places  in 
the  several  precincts.  Such  notice  shall  be  published  twice  in  each  of 
said  newspapers  before  the  day  fixed  or  appointed  for  the  election. 

COUNCIL   DISTKICTS. 

By-law  adopted  by  the  Council  of  the  Salt  Eiver  Valley  Waiter 
TJsers^  Association  on  the  27th  day  of  February,  A.  D.  1904,  dividing 
the  Eeservoir  District  into  ten  council  districts,  as  pi;ovided  for  in  Sec- 
tion IV,  Article  VI,  of  the  Articles  of  Incoporaton. 

The  territory  described  in  Section  III,  Article  IV,  shall  be  and  the 
same  is  hereby  divided  into  ten  council  distriits,  as  follows,  to-wit: 

DISTRICT  NO.  I. 

Beginning  at  a  point  on  the  Arizona  Canal  where  said  canal  inter- 
sects the  east  section  line  of  Section  25,  Township  3  North,  Range  2 
East  of  the  G.  &  S.  K.  B.  &  M.  Lines,  running  thence  in  a  northwester- 
ly direction  along  the  north  line  of  the  right  of  way  of  said  Arizona 
anal  to  t  he  end  thereof  at  or  near  the  quarter  comer  between  Sec- 
tions 5  and  6.  Township  3  North,  Range  1  East,  thence  west  to  the  left 
bank  of  the  Agua  Fira  River,  thence  in  a  southerly  direction  along  the 
left  bank  of  the  Agua  Fira  River  to  the  south  line  of  Township  3 
North,  thence  east  on  said  township  line  to  the  southeast  comer  of 
Section  36,  Township  3  North,  Range  2  East,  thence  north  to  the  place 
of  beginning. 

DISTRICT  NO.  11. 

Beginning  at  the  northeast  corner  of  Section  1,  ToAvnship  2  North, 
Range  1  East,  running  thence  west  on  the  north  township  line  of  said 
township  to  where  said  line  crosses  the  Agua  I'ria  River,  thence  south 
on  the  left  bank  of  said  river  to  a  point  on  the  south  line  of  Section  35, 
Township  2  North,  Range  1  West,  to  where  the  south  line  of  Township 
2  North  intersects  the  Agua  Fria  River,  thence  east  on  said  sohth  town- 
ship line  of  Township  2  North  to  the  southeast  corner  of  Section  36, 
Township  2  North,  Range  1  East,  thence  north  on  the  east  line  of 
To-wnship  2  North,  Range  1  East,  to  the  place  of  beginning. 

DISTRICT  NO.  IIL 

Beginning  at  the  northeast  corner  of  Section  6,  Township  1  North, 
Range  2  East,  running  thence  west  on    the    north    township    line    of 


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Township  1  North,  to  where  the  gaid  hne  crosses  the  Agua  Fria  River. 
being  at  a  point  on  the  north  line  of  >Stction  2,  Township  1  North. 
Kange  1  West,  thence  in  a  southerly  direction  along  the  left  bank  of 
the  Agua  Fria  Eiver  to  a  point  in  Section  14,  Township  ]  North,  Bange 
1  eWst,  where  the  line  of  the  St.  Johns  Canal  intersects  the  Agua  Fria 
River,  thence  in  a  southeasterly  direction  along  the  north  line  of  the 
right  of  way  of  the  St.  Johns  Canal  to  the  north  bank  of  the  Salt  River, 
thence  across  the  Salt  River  to  a  point  in  Section  35,  TowTisMp  1  North, 
Range  1  East,  where  the  east  line  of  the  Gila  River  Indian  Reservation 
intersects  the  south  bank  of  the  Salt  River,  thence  in  a  southerly  direc- 
tion along  the  east  line  of  said  Gila  River  Indian  Reservation  to-  the 
base  line  between  Townships  1  North  and  1  South,  thence  east  on  said 
base  line  to  the  southeast  comer  of  Section  31,  Township  1  North, 
Range  2  East,  thence  due  north  to  the  northeast  comer  of  Section  6, 
the  place  of  beginning. 

DISTRICT  NO.  IV. 

Commencing  at  the  northeast  comer  of  Section  2,  Township  2 
North,  Range  2  East,  thence  due  west  on  the  north  Hne  of  said  town- 
ship to  the  nori:hwest  corner  of  Section  6,  Township  2  North,  Range  2 
East,  thence  due  south  on  the  west  line  of  said  township  to  the  south 
west  comer  of  Section  31,  Township  2  North,  Range  2  East,  thence  east 
to  the  northeast  comer  of  Section  6,Township  1  North,  Range  2  East, 
thence  south  one  (1)  mile  to  the  southeast  comer  of  Section  6,  Town 
ship  1  North,  Range  2  East,  thence  east  on  section  line  five  (5)  miles 
to  the  southeast  comer  of  Section  1,  To^vnship  1  North,  Range  2  East, 
thence  north  on  east  township  line  three  (3)  miles  to  the  northeast  cor- 
ner of  Section  25,  Township  2  North,  Range  2  East,  thence  west  one  (1) 
mile  to  the  northwest  comer  of  Section  25,  Township  2  North,  Range  2. 
East,  thence  due  north  on  section  line  four  (4)  miles  to  place  of  begin- 


DISTRICT  NO.  V. 

Commencing  at  the  tiortheast  corner  of  Section  12,  Township  1 
North,  Range  2  East,  thence  west  five  (5)  miles  on  section  line  to  the 
northwest  comer  of  Section  8,  Township  1  North,  Range  2  East,  thence 
due  south  five  (5)  miles  to  the  south  line  of  said  township,  thence  west 
two  (2)  miles  on  said  township  line  to  the  point  of  intersection  of  said 
township  line  with  the  east  boundary  of  the  Gila  River  Indian  Res- 
ervation, thence  southeast  following  the  boundary  of  the  said  Gila 
River  Indian  Reservation  to  the  township  line  between  Townships  1  and 
2  South,  thence  etst  on  said  township  line  to  the  range  line  between 
Ranges  3  and  4  East,  thence  north  between  Ranges    3and  4  East  to  tke 


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point  of  intersection  of  said  range  line  with  the  Salt  Elver,  thence  west 
along  the  Salt  Eiver  to  the  point  of  intersection  of  said  line  of  Salt 
Kiver  with  the  range  line  between  Townships  2  and  3  East,  thence  north 
on  said  range  line  to  the  place  of  beginning, 

DISTRICT  NO.  VI. 

Commencing  at  a  point  on  the  east  line  of  Section  1 0,  Township  2 
North,  Eange  3  East,  where  said  section  line  intersects  the  line  of  the 
Arizona  Oanal,  thence  in  a  northwesterly  direction  along  the  north 
boundary  line  of  the  right  of  way  of  the  said  canal  to  the  point  of  in- 
tersection of  said  canal  line  with  the  west  township  line  of  Township  3 
North,  Range  3  East,  thence  south  on  said  township  line  to  the  south- 
west comer  of  Section  31,  Township  3  North,  Range  3  East,  thence 
west  on  section  line  one  (1)  mile  to  the  northwest  comer  of  Section  1, 
Township  2  North,  Range  2  East,  thence  south  on  section  line  four  (4) 
miles  to  the  southwest  corner  of  Section  24,  Township  2  Nirth,  Range 
2  East  ,thence  east  on  section  line  one  (1)  mile  to  the  southwest  comer 
of  Section  IP,  Township  2  North,  Range  3  East  ,thence  south  on  section 
line  to  the  south  bank  of  the  Salt  River,  thence  east  along  south  bank 
of  Salt  River  to  the  point  of  intersection  with  east  line  of  Section  22, 
Township  1  North,  Range  3  East,  thence  north  on  section  line  about 
seven  and  one-half  (7^)  files  to  place  of  beginning. 

DISTRICT  NO.  VII. 

Commencing  at  a  point  on  the  right  bank  of  the  Salt  River  at 
the  mouth  of  the  Verde  River,  thence  in  a  southerly  direction  to  the 
head  gates  of  the  Arizona  anal,  thence  in  a  general  westerly  direction 
along  the  north  line  of  the  right  of  way  of  the  Arizona  Canal  to  east 
line  of  Section  10,  Township  2  North,  Range  3  East,  where  the  same 
intersects  the  Arizona  Canal,  thence  south  on  section  line  to  south  bank 
of  Salt  River,  thence  in  easterly  direction  along  the  south  bank  of  Salt 
River  to  the  place  of  beginning. 

DISTRIT  NO.  VIII. 

Commencing  at  a  point  on  the  east  line  of  Section  5,  Township  1 
North,  Range  -5  East,  where  said  line  crosses  the  Salt  River,  thence, 
westerly  along  the  south  bank  of  said  river  to  the  point  of  intersection 
of  said  line  with  the  range  lines  between  Ranges  3  and  4  East,  thence 
due  south  on  said  range  line  to  the  south  township  line  of  Township 
1  South,  Range  4  East,  thence  east  on  said  township  line  to  the  south- 
fiafit  cornei-  of  Section  32,  To^Miship  1  South,  Range  5  East  ,thence  due 
nori;h  on  section  line  about  eleven  and  one-half  (11^')  miles  to  place 
of  beginniQg. 


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DISTRICT  NO.  IX. 

Commencing  at  a  point  on  the  left  bank  of  the  Salt  River  where 
the  Highland  Canal  head  is  taken  out  near  the  east  line  of  Section  24; 
Township  2  North,  Range  6  East,  thence  in  a  westerly  direction  along 
south  bank  of  the  Salt  River  to  the  west  line  of  Section  4.  Township 
1  Norfh,  Range  5  East,  thence  south  on  section  line  to  the  base  line 
G.  &  S.  R.  B.  &  M.,  thence  east  on  said  base  line  to  intersection  of  east 
line  of  right  of  way  of  Highland  Canal,  thence  in  a  northerly  direction 
along  the  east  line  of  the  riglit  of  way  of  the  Highland  Canal  to  the 
Salt  River  at  the  point  of  beginning. 

DISTRICT  NO.  X. 

Beginning  at  the  point  of  intersection  of  the  line  of  the  right  6f 
way  of  the  Highland  Canal  with  the  base  line  G.  &  S.  R.  B.  &  M.  thence 
west  on  said  base  line  to  the  northwest  comer  of  Section  4,  Township 
1  South,  Range  5  East,  thence  south  six  (6)  miles  to  the  south  line  of 
said  township,  thence  west  on  the  township  line  two  (2)  miles  to  the 
northwest  comer  of  Section  6,  Township  2  South,  Range  5  East,  thence 
south  on  range  line  between  Ranges  4  and  5  East  to  the  southwest 
corner  of  Section  31,  Township  2  South  Range  5  East  .thence  east 
on  toA\Tiship  line  to  the  east  line  of  the  right  of  way  of  the  East  Branch 
of  the  Consolidated  Canal,  thence  north  following  the  east  line  of  the 
right  of  way  of  the  East  Branch  of  the  Consolidated  Canal  to  the  south 
line  of  Section  2,  Township  2  South,  Range  5  East  .thence  east  to  the 
section  corner  common  to  Sections  5,  6,  7  and  8,  Township  2  South, 
Range  6  east,  thence  north  between  Sections  5  and  6,  Township  2 
South,  aRnge  6  East,  to  the  east  bank  of  the  Highland  Canal,  thence  in 
a  northerly  direction  along  the  east  bank  of  said  Highland  Canal  to  the 
place  of  beginning. 


AMENDING  SECTION  4  OF  ELECTIONS. 

Adopted  March  23,  1904. 

To  amend  Section  4  of  by-law  adopted  by  the  Council  of  the  Salt 
River  Valley  Water  Users'  Association  the  24t'h  day  of  July,  1903,  con- 
cerning elections: 

Section  1.  Section  4  of  the  by-law  adopted  by  the  Council  of  the 
Salt  River  Valley  Water  Users'  Association  the  24th  day  of  July, 
1903,  concerning  elec^ons,  is  hereby  amended  to  read  as  follows: 

Section  4.  Said  register  =hall  contain  the  name  of  those  share- 
holders only,  who  appear  on  the  records  of  the  association  to  be  share- 
holders on  the  twentieth  (20th)  day  before  the  day  of  election,  and  no 


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shareholderls  name  shall  be  entered  in  said  register  more  than  once; 
provided,  however,  if  a  shareholder  be  the  owner  of  lands  in  more  than 
one  district  to  which  the  shares  are  appurtenant,  he  may  designate  to 
the  secretary,  at  least  five  (5)  days  before  the  day  of  election,  the  number 
of  shares  he  wishes  to  vote  in  each  of  such  districts,  not  exceeding,  how- 
ever, in  the  aggregate,  160  votes  in  all,  and  the  secretary  shall  so  en- 
ter his  name  on  the  register  under  the  appropriate  headings." 


REGULATING  TERMS  OF  OFFICE    OF    OFFCIERS. 

Adopted  April  25th,  1904. 

Section  1.  The  terms  of  office  of  the  several  officers  of  this  asso- 
ciation who  are  elected  by  the  shareholders  thereof,  except  where 
they  shall,  or  may  be,  otherwise  prescribed  by  the  articles  of  incorpora- 
tion or  by  the  by-laws  of  this  association,  shall  begin  at  noon  of  the 
first  Monday  of  May  succeeding  the  election  therefor.  Such  officers 
shall  qualify  by  filing  a  written  acceptance  of  the  office  on  or  before 
said  date  and  hour,  with  the  secretary  of  the  association. 

Section  2.  The  terms  of  office  of  officers  elected  or  appointed 
otherwise  than  at  a  general  electioln  by  the  shareholders  of  this  associa 
tion,  and  unless  otherwise  prescribed  by  the  Articles  of  Incorporation 
or  the  by-laws  of  this  association,  shall  begin  when  the  person  elected 
or  appointed  thereto  shall  have  qualified  therefor  by  filing  his  written 
acceptance  of  such  office  and  his  official  bond  if  one  be  required  with- 
in ten  days  after  he  shall  have  been  notified  of  his  election  or  appoint- 
ment to  such  office. 

Secftion  3.  If  any  person  elected  or  appointed  to  any  office  in  this 
association  shall  fail  to  qualify  within  the  time  and  in  the  manner  pre- 
scribed in  the  two  foregoing  seotion?,  the  office  to  which  he  was  elected 
or  appointed  thereupon  be  deemed  vacant.  Provided,  however,  that 
no  person  shall  hold,  or  exercise  the  functions  of  more  than  one  office 
in  this  association  at  the  same  tiine:  and  provided  furthe,r  however, 
that  this  inhibition  shall  not  apply  to  the  person  elected  to  the  office 
of  vice  president. 


RELATING  TO  SALARIES. 

Adopted  April  25th,  1904. 

Amending  Section  3   of  Article  VIII.,  which  reads: 

"The  secretary  of  this  Association  shall  receive  an  annual  salary  of 
One  Thousand  Dollars,''  be  amended  to  read: 


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"The  secretary  of  this  Association  shall  receive  an  ajinual  salary  of 
INvelve  Hundred  Dollars." 


AUTHORIZING    EMPLOYMENT  OF  LEGAL  ADVISER. 

Adopted  May  2d,  1904. 

Section  1.  The  Board  of  Governors  is  hereby  authorized  to  ap- 
point and  employ  a  regular  legal  adviser  for  this  association  and  fix  his 
compensation;  provided,  that  such  e(Mnpensation  shall  not  exceed  the 
sum  of  two  thousand  dollars  for  the  term  ending  on  the  first  Monday 
in  May,  1905. 


